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Chen, Alvin Cheng-Hsien – Language Learning, 2019
This study evaluated second language (L2) phraseological development using a directional association measure (delta P) that assesses the directional formulaicity of recurrent multiword combinations. The study examined (a) whether learners develop their sensitivity to the distributional properties of recurrent multiword combinations as their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency, Essays
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Trecca, Fabio; McCauley, Stewart M.; Andersen, Sofie Riis; Bleses, Dorthe; Basbøll, Hans; Højen, Anders; Madsen, Thomas O.; Ribu, Ingeborg Sophie Bjønness; Christiansen, Morten H. – Language Learning, 2019
Research has shown that contoids (phonetically defined consonants) may provide more robust and reliable cues to syllable and word boundaries than vocoids (phonetically defined vowels). Recent studies of Danish, a language characterized by frequent long sequences of vocoids in speech, have suggested that the reduced occurrence of contoids may make…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Phonetics, Cues, Linguistic Theory
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Tachihara, Karina; Goldberg, Adele E. – Language Learning, 2020
Native speakers strongly disprefer novel formulations when a conventional alternative expresses the same intended message, presumably because the more conventional form competes with the novel form. In five studies, second language (L2) speakers were less influenced by competing alternatives than native speakers. L2 speakers accepted novel…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Task Analysis, Recognition (Psychology)
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Hulstijn, Jan H. – Language Learning, 2019
This article proposes basic (shared) and extended (nonshared) language cognition in native speakers as a function of two types of extralinguistic attributes: (a) degree of being multilingual and (b) variables related to amount and type of literacy experiences (e.g., level of education). This approach may throw new light on the question of whether…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Cadierno, Teresa; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide; Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto – Language Learning, 2016
This study investigates semantic categorization of the meaning of placement verbs by Danish and Spanish native speakers and two groups of intermediate second language (L2) learners (Danish learners of L2 Spanish and Spanish learners of L2 Danish). Participants described 31 video clips picturing different types of placement events. Cluster analyses…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classification, Verbs, Indo European Languages
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Lüdeling, Anke; Hirschmann, Hagen; Shadrova, Anna – Language Learning, 2017
The present study analyzes morphological productivity for complex verbs in second language acquisition by analyzing a corpus of German as a Foreign Language (GFL). It shows that advanced learners of GFL use prefix and particle verbs relatively frequently and productively but less so than native speakers do and discusses these findings in the light…
Descriptors: Models, Language Research, Computational Linguistics, Classification
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Robenalt, Clarice; Goldberg, Adele E. – Language Learning, 2016
When native speakers judge the acceptability of novel sentences, they appear to implicitly take competing formulations into account, judging novel sentences with a readily available alternative formulation to be less acceptable than novel sentences with no competing alternative. Moreover, novel sentences with a competing alternative are more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs, Word Frequency
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Kanwit, Matthew – Language Learning, 2017
This study aimed to advance research on first and second language future-time expression in Spanish and to demonstrate the strengths of combining functionalist, concept-oriented approaches (e.g., Andersen, 1984; Bardovi-Harlig, 2000; Shirai, 1995; von Stutterheim & Klein, 1987) with variationist approaches. The study targeted 140 participants…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Spina, Stefania – Language Learning, 2015
Research into frequency intuition has focused primarily on native (L1) and, to a lesser degree, nonnative (L2) speaker intuitions about single word frequency. What remains a largely unexplored area is L1 and L2 intuitions about collocation (i.e., phrasal) frequency. To bridge this gap, the present study aimed to answer the following question: How…
Descriptors: Intuition, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure
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Burch, Alfred R. – Language Learning, 2014
Research on second language (L2) communication strategies over the past three decades has concerned itself broadly with defining their usage in terms of planning and compensation, as well as with the use of taxonomies for coding different types of strategies. Taking a Conversation Analytic (CA) perspective, this article examines the fine-grained…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Communication Strategies
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Uzal, Melike; Peltonen, Teemu; Huotilainen, Minna; Aaltonen, Olli – Language Learning, 2015
This study investigated whether children born in a second language (L2) environment pronounce their L2 with foreign accents and, if so, when foreign accents first emerge. This study also examined the latest age of onset (AO) of extensive L2 experience at which native L2 pronunciation is possible and explored several factors that affect the degree…
Descriptors: Turkish, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Spada, Nina; Shiu, Julie Li-Ju; Tomita, Yasuyo – Language Learning, 2015
This study builds on research investigating the construct validity of elicited imitation (EI) as a measure of implicit second language (L2) grammatical knowledge. It differs from previous studies in that the EI task focuses on a single grammatical feature and time on task is strictly controlled. Seventy-three EFL learners and 20 native English…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Task Analysis, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Sonbul, Suhad; Schmitt, Norbert – Language Learning, 2013
To date, there has been little empirical research exploring the relationship between implicit and explicit lexical knowledge (of collocations). As a first step in addressing this gap, two laboratory experiments were conducted that evaluate different conditions (enriched, enhanced, and decontextualized) under which both adult native speakers…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Priming
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Foster, Pauline; Tavakoli, Parvaneh – Language Learning, 2009
This article argues that a native-speaker baseline is a neglected dimension of studies into second language (L2) performance. If we investigate how learners perform language tasks, we should distinguish what performance features are due to their processing an L2 and which are due to their performing a particular task. Having defined what we mean…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Language Fluency
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Clahsen, Harald; Felser, Claudia; Neubauer, Kathleen; Sato, Mikako; Silva, Renita – Language Learning, 2010
This article presents a selective overview of studies that have investigated how advanced adult second language (L2) learners process morphologically complex words. The studies reported here have used different kinds of experimental tasks (including speeded grammaticality judgments, lexical decision, and priming) to examine three domains of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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